Big Beautiful Belly

My dear, very pregnant friend, Dawn, came over today with her kids. My sis was here too with her fancy smanchy camera, and eye for photography. So we got a few shots of

a pregnant mama. These were not pictures of the delicate 2nd trimester belly, but of a full term, ripe and round belly, with a 8 pound little guy cuddled inside.

Dawn was feeling self concious, I'm sure, because, after the second trimester you enter the walrus phase of pregnancy. It's not cute any more; it's just big. But there is something outrageously beautiful about a pregnant woman. A woman with a full term belly is flagrantly, and obviously femenine. She is round and ripe. Her body unapologetically becries her God given destiny to nurture and mother.

Given the choice between the curves of pregant woman and the pre-pubecient twigginess of a runway model, I'd say that a pregant woman's body is more lovely every time.